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It seems someone was able to get a Coffee Lake CPU to actually work on a Z170 motherboard! This was of course said to be impossible per Intel, although ASUS said that Coffee Lake CPUs could be used on the Z270 platform.

MSI is proud to announce the new Z170A GAMING M6 motherboard for the enthusiast gamers. Premiering two significant new features, Lightning USB and the next generation Killer networking technology, the Z170A GAMING M6 adopts evil gray as its major color scheme, bringing a whole new look and feel to the game table. This motherboard also offers Twin Turbo onboard M.2, Audio Boost 3 and a plethora of other game enhancing features.

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is proud to announce today, a promotion with EK Water Blocks, the world's top liquid cooling manufacture. This promotion will begin on August 1st, 2016 and will be held throughout Europe. GIGABYTE and EK Water Blocks promotion bundle includes an award winning GIGABYTE motherboard, GIGABYTE's X99-Ultra Gaming or Z170X-Gaming 7, paired with a limited edition nickel monoblock engraved with a custom G1 design or limited edition EK-Supremacy EVO X99 water block.

MSI has just announced its second "Gaming Titanium" LGA1151 motherboard, the Z170A MPower Gaming Titanium. This board follows the Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium and has a slightly lighter feature-set. The board still has that awesome Titanium look with with the silvery-white PCB and silver / chrome heatsinks and heatspreaders. It even has a white back-plate on the reverse side.

ASRock has been collaborating with Fatal1ty on gaming motherboards for sometime now. For the Z170 series ASRock’s gaming line is made up of six motherboards. Today we will be taking a look at the Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K6+ which sits right below the high-end Fatal1ty Z170 Professional Gaming i7. It has a very powerful feature-set included a 12-phase all digital power design, NVIDIA quad-SLI and AMD Quad CrossFire support, Killer E2400 gaming networking, ASRock’s Purity Sound 3 audio, USB 3.1 support and much more! Being a gaming board you get some extras too like ASRock’s F-Stream software and tools as well as 3-month premium license to XSplit broadcaster. Let’s jump in and see what the Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K6+ Motherboard is all about.

ASRock has just launched a micro-ATX variant of its flagship socket LGA1151 motherboard that is targeted at professional overclockers. It is the Z170M OC Formula, but unlike most Z170 motherboard it only has two DDR4 DIMM slots. This is because ASRock wanted to use the extra space for stronger electrical components. The board features a 14-phase VRM for the CPU and a 2-phase VRM for the memory. It draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary as a motherboard maker, MSI has unveiled a new Z170 motherboard it its Z170A Krait Gaming 3X. The board features the same white and black color design that we've seen from the Krait family in the past. So you have a black PCB with white accents throughout.

The mini-ITX form factor is becoming extremely popular with gamers who will be using a single graphics card because it allows them to build a system with premium components that is small and easy enough to take with them to LAN parties or other events. The problem with mini-ITX motherboards has been that they lack many features that their larger ATX counterparts offer. Well Gigabyte is changing that with their Z170N-Gaming 5 motherboard that has all of the features you would want in a full-size ATX motherboard, but in the tiny mini-ITX form factor. Gigabyte was able to pack in Killer E2200 gaming networking, Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 support, a PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 slot, two USB 3.1 ports (1x Type-C, 1x Type-A), and even 802.11ac dual band wireless. Gigabyte wants this to be the perfect board for gamers building in the mini-ITX form factor. Is it? Let’s take a look and find out!

The EVGA Z170 Classified K is engineered from the ground up for the hardcore gamer. Featuring a next generation Intel Z170 Express Chipset with DDR4 3600MHz+ memory support, this motherboard is built to dominate. Built in Killer Ethernet helps to prioritize and reduce network latency to keep you at the top of your game.

While we did not see a whole lot of motherboard announcements at CES 2016 MSI was actually showing off two new "Carbon" motherboards. These boards were the X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon and the Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon. And if you can guess by the name these boards have carbon fiber design elements.